rawhide report: 20060709 changes

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jul 10 19:07:04 UTC 2006


Arjan van de Ven (arjan at fenrus.demon.nl) said: 
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 07:55 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:43:11PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Ok, with manual ugly tweaking (I don't know python) I generated the list
> > > I think the python script was confused by the " " in the monitor names
> > 
> > Did you actually change the python app?  If so, please send me the
> > patch you used. I'll look into quote escapes too.
> 
> btw is someone looking at a "please insert the CD that came with your
> display" application that then mounts the CD, scans it for .inf files,
> imports those into the system and then unmounts the cd?
> (and maybe optionally sends the imported files to bugzilla ??? ;-)
> 
> Would be nice for novice users to get their monitor to work by doing
> what they expect.. eg put in the cd that came with it.

Actually, we're looking at just having X determine what monitors are
there automatically, and throwing out most of this data for sane, modern,
displays. :)

Bill




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